FILE: 15_The Voyage of Life-Old Age_Cole.jpg

TITLE: PAINTING - The Voyage of Life - Old Age - 19TH CENTURY

DESCRIPTION: COLE. 2nd kind of Landscape: ALLEGORY. Not entirely popular with public, but he got away with it. Part 4 of Cycle of 4 paintings about the Voyage of Life. Part 4 = Old Age. Heaven is the only solace for old age. Cole went to Europe to see paintings of other artists. Wm Cullen Bryant wrote poem aout Cole's departure admonishing him to remember the wild-ness of America: "...earlier, wilder image bright..." .